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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1902
Page
7
In Boston the New England poet Ruth M. Crocker celebrated her eightieth birthday. Daughter of a Mayflower descendant ties to John Allen and Priscilla Allen, and before Mrs Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin she wrote a novel on the same theme which remained unpublished after Stowe's book appeared.
A Topeka man misplaced a small opal from his ring and bought a replacement. On returning home he slipped the old gem into his mouth for safe keeping and rushed to the jeweler. He insisted the old stone be used in place of the new opal. He gulped and admitted the mistake, humorously noting the newer stone should be used. The tale ends with a plug for Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin.
A Toledo area notice offers one hundred dollars for information leading to the capture of a thief or scammer tied to a series of questionable business dealings. The advertisement boasts the signer’s long experience and intent to enforce obligations through parties including Cheney and others, while promoting a health remedy claim.
An old time ad praises Defiance Starch, touting 16 ounce packages for ten cents, better quality and more starch than 12 ounce rivals, with wholesale claims of whiteness and no premium offers. Mentions Santa Fe pamphlet on Indian motifs and a Kansas City to St Louis train tip, plus light commentary on domestic bliss and shared wisdom.
Chicagoan Paul Kuntz travels from Arkansas with Northern capitalists proposing to replace enslaved or free Black labor with trained monkeys in cotton picking. He claims monkeys can outperform workers, demand no wages, form no unions, and can be trained based on observations in Africa. He owns a plantation and expects a large monkey consignment for field work.
A senator from New England recalls his first closed session in which the chamber emptied, a lone figure lighting a cigar, and a motion to confirm John Smith to a $700 Podunk post. The vice president’s curt ruling ended the scene and shattered the narrator’s dream.
Benjamin Prouty of Boston recalls the boyhood sight of Daniel Webster at a Half Way tavern in Queen Anne’s Corner Plymouth County. A 15 year old server refused Webster a drink. the lad was punished by the landlord but Webster later praised the boy and gave a quarter.
Among recently granted US patents is one to John W. Jenkins of New York City describing a system using successive saddle cars. Passengers may enter or leave a moving train without interrupting its movement, eliminating the need to stop at stations.
The article outlines that for a French patent the invention must be absolutely new, have an industrial character, and not violate public order morals or national law. It notes that prior publicity in France or abroad can prevent conferring novelty, affecting patentability.
By permission of the czar the emir of Bokhara with his son heir Seld Mir Alemin will visit St Petersburg soon.
The nation's telephone service will be state run as two private companies are bought out for £050,000. The move aims to centralize control and modernize communication infrastructure in Sweden, signaling a major shift in public utilities governance.
The Portsmouth Times recounted a dramatic endorsement of St Jacobs Oil and Vogeler’s Curative Compound from Elizabeth Rabbets of Mile End Portamouth. It claims a shipyard worker recovered from a crippled ankle to return to work within weeks and cites multiple cures including a child’s skin disease.
Bishop William DB Derrick of New York, who oversees over 300 African Methodist churches in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and New England, will deliver the sermon for the three hundred fifty third anniversary of the Huguenot church in Canterbury England in July.
The document discusses briquettes of petroleum used as coal substitutes with free duty for war needs. It includes a testimonial from Mia Sarah A. Shroder of Tendal Indiana praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder troubles. It also mentions Congressman Needham of California, noting his birth in Carson City Nebraska in an emigrant wagon.
Patchwork of 1900 era notices and product pitches. Advertisements tout Mother Gray powders for children, patent medicines, and tonics alongside humorous quips and stray editorials. Names like Allen Olmsted and N. W. Bam appear amid varied claims and coupons.
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